in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 criticise
VERB 批评;指责;批判 If you
criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
批评;指责;批判 -
His mother had rarely criticized him or any of her children. [VERB noun]
他母亲很少指责他或她的任何孩子。
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The minister criticised the police for failing to come up with any leads. [VERB noun + for]
部长批评警方没能找到任何线索。
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The regime has been harshly criticized for serious human rights violations. [V n for n/-ing]
该政府因为严重侵犯人权而受到强烈指责。
SYN find fault with,
censure,
disapprove of,
knock [informal] Quotations
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make its own Henry James What Maisie Knew There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us Anon. ThesaurusWord PartnershipWord Link
Thesaurus | criticize Also look up: |
VERB. | knock; (ant.) applaud, praise |
Word Partnership | Use criticize with: |
PREP. | be criticized about/by/for |
N. | criticize the government |
Word Link | crit ≈ to judge : critic, critical, criticize |
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